Lane Frost
Bull Rider
"Don't be afraid to go after what you want to do, and what you want to be. But don't be afraid to be willing to pay the price."
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Winston Churchill
Politician, Writer, Historian
"No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle."
Warren Buffett
Investor, Businessman
"Never ask a barber if you need a haircut."
Blake Shelton
Singer, Songwriter
"Where I live in Oklahoma, it's all ranchers. My friends are all cowboys and pretty rough guys. If I had a hot tub back there, I may as well have Richard Simmons come over and live with me."
Steven Wright
Comedian
"If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed, tree surgeons debarked, and dry cleaners depressed?"
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"Nobody ever saw a cowboy on the psychiatrist's couch."
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"The trick of this thing and the beauty of this thing is that it's a cowboy movie first and then stuff happens. Even after stuff happens it doesn't change - it hasn't suddenly changed into another kind of movie. It's still a cowboy movie. And that's what's incredible about it because nobody has done that before, that's new territory."
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"I think a lot of African-American kids don't have fathers to teach them how to dress, so you end up being taught by pictures in magazine and movies. You see cowboys, Indians, old Hollywood films, Cary Grant. It has an effect on you."
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"A railroad is like a lie you have to keep building it to make it stand."
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"Spending that many hours in the saddle gave a man plenty of time to think. That's why so many cowboys fancied themselves Philosophers."
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"Cowboy boots with a suit? You're a rough, tough businessman. Chaps with a bow tie? You're in the rough, tough man business."
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"I'm pretty sure I could outrun the whole Dallas Cowboys team."
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"I'm like 6'2 when I wear heels, so I tend to wear cowboy boots a lot."
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"It doesn't matter the kind of music, it doesn't matter whether it's a cowboy hat or a yarmulke. I don't care if it's outer space or pop, the spirit is the same."
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"I'm 5'11, so when I wear heels, it's definitely a really good view that I have. I'm, like, 6'2 when I wear heels, so I tend to wear cowboy boots a lot."
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"When my friends and I played cowboys and Indians, I was always the Chinese railroad worker."
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"Every country in the world loved the folklore of the West--the music, the dress, the excitement, everything that was associated with the opening of a new territory. It took everybody out of their own little world. The cowboy lasted a hundred years, created more songs and prose and poetry than any other folk figure. The closest thing was the Japanese samurai. Now, I wonder who'll continue it."
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"I met this cowboy with a brown paper hat, paper waistcoat and paper trousers. He was wanted for rustling."
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"Let him ride a horse. He's a cowboy ain't he?"
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"The cowboy doesn't need an iron horse, but covers his country on one that eats grass and wears hair."
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"White domination is so complete that even American Indian children want to be cowboys. It's as if Jewish children wanted to play Nazis."
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"The great cowboys are the ones with the biggest hearts."
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"I don't care about going down in history as a great bull rider or bronc rider. I hope people will remember me as a great cowboy."
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"I can tell a good cowboy by the way he approaches a cow."
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"We have a sense that we should be like the mythical cowboy... able to take on and conquer anything and live in the world without the need for other people."
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